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This week in a special programme The Arts Hour takes a look at one of the world鈥檚 most international celebrations of cinema, the BFI London Film Festival. Nikki Bedi hears how the ambitious festival comes together and speaks to the directors coming to London to show their films to a global audience.

Nikki hears from Gitanjali Rao, whose film Bombay Rose is pioneering a new Indian style of animation and superstar Swedish director Lukas Moodysson talks about making his first TV series, G枚sta.

Director Apolline Traor茅 from Burkina Faso explains why she decided to set her tense thriller Desrances in Ivory Coast, Bangladeshi film-maker Rubaiyat Hossain talks about tackling the global garment industry in her latest feature Made in Bangladesh and Isabel Sandoval on why she chose to focus on undocumented Filipina migrants in New York in her bitter sweet love story, Lingua Franca.

(Photo shows Lukas Moodysson, writer and director of G枚sta (c) John Phillips/Getty Images)